> What if the university only admitted students who don't cheat?
It’s a common fallacy to attribute behavior to innate qualities of people, rather than situations.
Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
by tbrownaw on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:41PM
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And yet there truly are people who are far more (or far less) honest than other people in the same situations.
For anyone interested, it's called the fundamental attribution error.
Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
by cvwright on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:35PM
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Or just grade other work that doesn't require proctoring.
Personally, I removed exams entirely in the last courses I taught in Spring 2020, and it seemed to work out OK. I had no faith that the proctoring systems would catch everything, and I had no desire to inflict them on my students in any case.
Yeah, it's crazy that cheaters are the protagonist of the ban e-proctoring story.
What if the university only admitted students who don't cheat?
How do we know that policy works for real at a place like Caltech?
Academic culture is accommodating, and you feel that way too. But universities must know that cheating harms everyone, it's a losing proposition. The right response should have been to suspend grading.